SRINAGAR: One after the other, people in Kashmir have begun to contribute to mitigate the challenges thrown up by Covid-19. First, it was a group of businessmen who offered their hotels for quarantining people with travel history. Their contribution made it possible to keep hundreds of people under appropriate quarantine conditions. Before the hotel accommodations […]
SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir government is quarantining people (for preventing spread of deadly coronavirus) by cramming more than one person in a room where there are no sanitisers, no masks, and no separate washrooms. The conditions seem to be less geared for fighting a pandemic than for paving the way to a disaster. Medically, […]
SRINAGAR: Doctors fighting the deadly coronavirus at Srinagar hospitals are still working without proper protective measures. The Resident Doctors’ Association (RDA) has written a letter to the principal of Government Medical College (GMC) Srinagar, pointing out immediate requirements of masks, sanitisers, and temporary residential accommodation within hospitals. “If even one resident ends ups being infected […]
SRINAGAR: After three days, several people who had returned from foreign countries and had been put into official quarantine facilities at Haj House, were taken to a hotel and given separate rooms on Saturday. Officials finally shifted today the people kept at Haj House where more than one person was accommodated in a room, to […]
SRINAGAR: Calls are growing from all sections of society for restoration of 4G internet in Kashmir, the only place in the world amid coronavirus spread that has restricted internet speed. Politicians, businessmen, school principals alike have been appealing to the Government of India to restore 4G internet which was suspended last year in August when […]
SRINAGAR: Government-run educational institutions in Kashmir have begun to prepare online tutorials now that all schools and colleges are shut due to the coronavirus scare. The move will benefit some 1.5 million students studying at school, college and university level. China, the country most affected by the deadly virus, has adopted the same model of […]
SRINAGAR: The arrest of a Kashmiri couple in New Delhi during the wee hours of Sunday morning has shocked their family members in Srinagar. Until the news about the arrest of Jahanzaib Sami and his wife, Hina Beigh, was broken to their family in Kashmir, they were living a content and peaceful life with no […]
SRINAGAR: Suspension of telecom and internet services in Jammu & Kashmir for several months since August 5 last year caused the government-owned BSNL to suffer losses of up to 100 crore. Public Relations Officer for BSNL, Masood Bala, told Kashmir Reader that the company suffered losses in all its verticals in Jammu and Kashmir, which […]
SRINAGAR: The gradual lifting of restrictions on public movement and access to information in Kashmir has begun to reveal what the extended lockdown has done to Kashmiri entrepreneurs who had given up their savings and plush jobs to create new wealth, jobs, and enterprise. Syed Ashfaq, an entrepreneur with 10 years of experience, is just […]
Speed to be limited to 2G; no internet access for pre-paid phones
SRINAGAR: The government on Wednesday lifted the unprecedented seven-month-long ban on social media but continued with the ban on high-speed mobile internet in Jammu & Kashmir. An order issued by principal secretary home department Shaleen Kabra did not mention a word about the social media “ban” but only laid out the conditions for social media […]